Where are we going as a society? In a "title" fixated world we are no longer basing ourselves on becoming individuals, just merely a reflection of an individual of whom appears to fufill the needs of the self image we indulge. It's why women are in women's magazines and why men are left empty when not physically fit or packing "firepower".
Most lose the zest for life before they leave the gate in this rat race. Sadly, all the rats, even the ones in the lead, are genreally unhappy with their constant state of thinking, and they base this on their struggle to continue trying....But like with the unending high scores in old time video games(the ones I grew up to), there really isn't an end, or a final triumph.
We as people as impossibly lost inside this maze of our own creation. If we made God, then we have most certainly abandoned him. It's not our swords or our hearts, or even our sinning. It is simply our inabilty to allow faith to control our empty lives. We are alone in the universe. Not as creatures, but as spirits. We exist upon our own self worth and show no restraint towards finding a cure to this disease called life. In that though, lies our true weakness. We build pillars of words and wisdom, all for what?
Science and technology are the only things which can save us over the next million years, and that requires things which teenage intellectual orphans can not possibly allow to happen. The imprisonment and slow eradication of lower intellegent animal species on this planet. Take a small walk with me and examine the fruits that in your world, would not exist. Without animal control and food production, there is a loss of 90% of medical testing. Disease runs rampant as animal illnesses take epic proportions and mutate as all animal born viruses do and overtake humanity. Primary farming is abolished and tribal living is neo-blasphomy,(sorry american indians, in their world, you lose again).
Philosophy is cancelled out due to the new and unwielding evidence against Survival Of The Fittest, Natural Selection, and even Divine Rule. What are we anymore, but children looking for any excuse to overthrow ourselves and our pathetic and ironically self-righteous behavior...
Need more proof, then read this article by an anti-peta acitivist group.
Your Kids, PETA's Pawns
How the animal rights movement targets children
A 15-year-old girl attempts to ban circus elephants in Denver. A rash of adolescent-driven, animal-rights-related vandalism hits California. A twelve-year-old boy passes the hat for animal rights. A popular software company promotes a video game about "animal liberation" activists who destroy medical research labs. Ten-year-olds in Ontario are shown "don't kill the animals" videos in public schools. North America's largest animal rights convention features two separate panels titled "Engaging Children." Is there any doubt that the animal rights movement is targeting your kids? In a new report, "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns," the Center for Consumer Freedom explores how one group, the $24 million People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), devotes substantial resources toward capturing children -- the next generation of potential meat eaters, milk drinkers, circus-goers, and fishermen -- in its cult-like web. In its 2003 annual report, PETA boasts of reaching more than 2.3 million children and teachers with its destructive messages.
Despite denunciations from psychologists and school officials, PETA continues to target children as young as six years old with violent and graphic propaganda. Sidestepping parents and school authorities, PETA lures young and impressionable children into radical activism with a coordinated effort including the use of graphic comic books,grotesque toys, schoolyard demonstrations, e-mail alerts sent directly to 65,000 children,
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Not convinced? Read "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns" and learn how this radical animal rights group is a multi-million-dollar menace to children of all ages. Teachers, principals, school board members, and school psychologists can request printed copies by e-mailing us your name and job title, the name of your school or school district, and a mailing address. Copies of our recent Newsweek ad (suitable for hanging in your faculty lounge) are also available.
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7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA
1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her groups overall goal as total animal liberation. This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.
2) Despite its constant moralizing about the unethical treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 10,000 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2003, PETA put to death over 85 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.
3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified domestic terrorist group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that blowing stuff up and smashing windows is a great way to bring about animal liberation.
4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: Your Mommy Kills Animals! PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channels audience: Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.
5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.
6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs died for their sins. PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous Holocaust on Your Plate campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.
7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.
Animal groups callous, not cute
By: Richard Berman
Newspaper: USA Today
When the human race confronts its most harrowing experiences, one can reliably count on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to think of the chickens. As the images of Iraq's torture chambers remind us of humans' capacity to brutalize their own kind, PETA loudly frets that pigeons and chickens used by U.S. troops to detect chemical weapons "never enlisted." PETA also complained to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that dolphins locating mines in the Persian Gulf "have not volunteered" for service.
That's PETA. Save the dolphins; forget the humans.
PETA has placed animal life above human tragedy before. Earlier this year, it unveiled a roving exhibit, "The Holocaust on Your Plate," that juxtaposes images of chickens with a photo of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel as a young man at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Declaring a roaster chicken's life to be as valuable as a person's should be unthinkable. But PETA's vulgar attempts to get attention are tame compared to those of animal extremists who are torching medical research labs, severing delivery truck brake lines and planting incendiary devices at fast-food restaurants just to get attention.
So serious have such crimes become that the FBI has issued an alert to law enforcement agencies to remain on the lookout for possible criminal activity by "animal rights extremists" during the World Week for Animals in Laboratories protest scheduled to begin Saturday.
Vinegar, not honey
The animal rights movement has gone from cute and cuddly think baby seals to callous and cutthroat. "Our non-violent tactics are not as effective," PETA's co-founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, has said. "We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." She did not respond to a request for further comment.
Another group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), is running an intimidation campaign against those who do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a research lab that uses animal tests to help find new drugs for AIDS, cancer and other diseases.
"You don't need a four-year degree to call in a bomb hoax," SHAC leader Kevin Kjonaas says on a tape. At another event, he explains: "We're not your parents' Humane Society. ... We come with a new philosophy. We hold the radical line. We will not compromise! We will not apologize, and we will not relent!"
PETA ran the campaign against Huntingdon until a court order stopped it. PETA also funded the legal defense of a convicted arsonist and has served as the media representative for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a terrorist group. Think that's a misuse of the "T" word? The FBI doesn't. It calls ALF, along with its sister organization, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), "a serious terrorist threat" within the United States.
Detailing the terrorism
It is outrageous that the FBI must devote resources to the crimes of homegrown animal-rights zealots at the same time it faces overseas terrorist threats. Yet a few days into the Iraq war, ALF released a report of domestic terrorism committed by ALF and ELF in 2002, claiming "100 illegal direct actions" against businesses, government agencies and universities.
Militants have taken over the animal rights movement. But some mainstream institutions act as if they were still talking about shelters for stray dogs and cats. In February, California State University, Fresno invited ALF and ELF leaders to participate in a conference on "revolutionary environmentalism." State taxpayers can savor the irony of paying both for Fresno to host terrorists and for the FBI to track them down.
Some of these activists have declared themselves heir to Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of protest. King engaged in civil disobedience, but he didn't use fire to make a point. Nor is there anything civil about those who value chickens over the lives of our troops.
Richard Berman is executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit coalition supported by restaurant operators and food and beverage companies.